Imagine if you were brought in front a big screen and shown a picture of a gathering with hundreds of people.

Imagine if you were brought in front a big screen and shewn a picture of a gatherer with hundreds of people. Imagine you were told you were all this people and the place too.

Imagine you were told you were all this people and the place too.

Imagine if you were also convinced you were each one of this people individually and every time you were actually observing one of them you would assume their program (mind) and adding another mind to the general one it was given to you when you sat in front the screen.

Imagine yourself, now, leaded to believe you’re those people, trying to make them survive, feeling responsible for their future, for each individual future and well being.

Imagine yourself, not knowing is a projection and not knowing they are all one image, starting fights one against another to protect and support the different minds (program)… in truth fighting yourselves.

Imagine yourself feeling something is really wrong and trying to unsuccessfully escape from the screen as a single person… Unsuccessfully, as while you are desperately trying to escape as one, you are continuing your participation in the play with all the others.

Imagine yourself feeling something is really wrong and trying to unsuccessfully escape from the screen as a single person… Unsuccessfully, as while you are desperately trying to escape with one, you are continuing your participation in the play with all the others. But again, you do not know that anymore.

And so, you start focusing in campaigns to save the world, while part of you knows there is not such world and, frustrated and upset, is trying to destroy this screen… the very same world you are trying to save.

Some philosophers say we are one and we are responsible for everybody, we are everywhere while some other say we are a single being. From a mind prospective they both potentially right.

However, outside the “minds”there is no us, me, you or I in this projection.

There is a projection and the only way out, is not to play any part in the movie we see.”

In truth, if there is ever going to be a truth understandable or even perceivable and by a mind, there is no us, me or I in this projection. There is a projection and the only way out, at least from the “movie”, is not to play any part in the movie.”

There is no home in a prison, but there are people who, like you, know where home is…

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Three years ago a guy came to visit and touched my soul.

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I mistakenly assumed two souls when connected,

would be able to overcome anything in this physical-illusionary world.

What I did not know at that time was,

although people can momentarily awaken

fueled by the energy of someone spiritually powerful,

if they do not have enough personal energy,

they will fall right back asleep.

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And so while the soul touching exist beyond time,

everything in this physical universe dies.

I woke up few months later married to an angry-capricious man

who was lacking any sense of integrity, loyalty and compassion.

I knew I was in the wrong dream,

yet, I would have stayed till dead to fulfill my promise of love.

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He, instead, did me the favor to set me free.

The psychological torture I endured during this time was so deep

this body still undergoing extreme moments

of severe grief and depression

although life has made my last ‘human’ dream come true;

some months ago I met a man…

We had common spiritual interest and so I agree to meet him.

After few dates I realized what a human soul mate is.

“…In true mysticism there is no sacrifice of feeling. Mystical sensations are sensations of the same category as the sensation of love, only infinitely higher and more complex. Love “sex”, these are but a foretaste of mystical sensations. “Ouspensky: A NEW MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE “Sex and Evolution”————“Mystical sensations undoubtely and incontestably have a taste of sex… Of course all we know in life, only in love is there a taste of the mystical, a taste of ecstasy. Nothing else in our life brings us so near to the limit of human possibilities, beyond which begins the unknown.The Strange Life of PD Ouspensky by Colin Wilson

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During our spiritual meetings, where at closed eyes

I could perceive the different energies of the participants,

I noticed the energy of B. to be a whole with mine.

One of the most amazing experiences I had in this illusion.

There is no me or him in the energy view of this illusion,

although the analytical mind does an amazing work

on trying to separate and add impurities to this perfect flowing

toward full fusion of two drops of “oil” into one drop.

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When recently I met his family,

I found myself experiencing the reunion of old souls (friends).

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Although our “performances” on the stage of life

have been very different as far as backgrounds,

stage costumes and other appearances of matter, time and place,

the plot of our lives (energy type) have been extremely similar.

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Ouspensky believes we are going to go through

the same events life after life,

with the only change in time, background and costumes.

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Interesting.

My personal belief is ‘nothing here is real’,

although there is an awareness

which allows us to connect to other awarenessess.

This awareness is real up to the moment

we try to bring it to the level of a mind,

at which moment it becomes a lie.

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That is the reason there cannot be a school

or a prearranged path.

Awareness cannot be thought or talked about.

It can only be perceived.

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When you read a book, it is not the words that make the difference.

Is the fact that you, at that very moment,

are on a certain frequency to connect

with higher frequency thoughts floating aoround.

Concepts you are unable to perceive with the use of a mind.

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That is the reason Sufis (Jesus too) communicated in parables.

They have a meaning for every level of frequency.

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In fact as one get on higher frequencies

the meaning and truth once seen

changes completely and at times both turns into the very opposite,

till they get to a level above the ‘yin and the yang’, positive and negative

The business of lying…

“Therefore be “unattached”; let things work; let brain centers work; work incessantly, but let not a ripple conquer the mind. Work as if you were a stranger in this land, a sojourner; work incessantly, but do not bind yourselves; bondage is terrible. The world is not our habitation, it is only one of the many stages through which we are passing” Swami Vivikananda

I have been told many times from my teachers my problem was I did not like myself, myself being to them my illusionary image in this illusionary world; Silvia Kusada.

It never felt right while at the same time it was true.

But as for any partial truth, that piece of information halted me.

I always felt trapped by the fact I was recognized and identified with a piece of energy. I had been fighting this ‘Silvia Kusada’, trying to change her or make her disappear. That has been wrong too. As a spectator of a play. It is both wrong to fall into the delusion you can help improving a character or to try to destroy it. It is both ways an identification with a lie.

Today when I look back I see that if my cohorts approach would have been toward me being able to detach from the illusion of an identity/ies, (Note, detachment has no business in any creation or destruction), I would have recognized in that a meaningful step on my path.

The stage where billions of billions of movies are projected, crossing and overlapping is an endless playground.

“The stage where billions of billions of movies are projected, crossing and overlapping is an endless playground.”

Detachment, self remembering has many layers, but none of them are useful until they reach the level of the higher spiritual mind, the one outside the duality and energy form.

A data is of no use, until is understood. Still at that point is of no use until it becomes true for you, and again it is of no use till you able to own it.

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These are all steps.

A movie or a play is emotionless, unless we put there emotions to be felt.

And so it is by our self-deception, weakness and delusion that we laugh and cry. We look at the beautiful nature, at life achievements, and we feel happy. But once you know the truth, there is no happiness. Happiness in this illusion is regarded in higher planes as suffering and limitation.

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” To this level suicide would be to stay. To forget or compromise their freedom and knowingness of truth.”

And so once your eyes are open the only way to continue to be ‘human’ or spiritually ‘human’ is to lie to yourself.

The strong black energy surrounding this Silvia Kusada’s program has nearly deformed and destroyed her; what the rational mind calls heavy depression is nothing but an awareness of lies. A form of transformation which destroys a non-functioning or deteriorating program. It is the wind of a new illusion slowly supplanting an old weak one.

Depression is just an appearance, as death.

What is suicide? An unaware method to abandon the ‘story’ while you believe your place still on the stage.

Yet, many higher ‘enlighted’ have left the stage, knowing they never had to be there in the first place. They stop creating it and giving it the soundtrack of emotions, the stopped to listening to the sounds.

To such levels of awareness suicide would be to stay. To forget or compromise their freedom and knowingness of truth.

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Again, my aim is not to achieve material happiness or to stop suffering… It is truth and truth only at its higher levels.

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WHAT IS YOGA? page 259

A NEW MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE by Ouspensky

“The chief principle of Karma-Yoga is non-attachment. A man who follows the methods of Karma-Yoga must practise non-attachment always and in everything, whether to good or to evil, to pleasure or to pain. Non-attachment does not mean indifference. It is a certain kind of separation of self from what happens or from “what a man is doing. It is not coldness, nor is it the desire to shut oneself off from life. It is the recognition and the constant realisation that everything is done according to certain laws and that everything in the world has its own fate.”

KARMA—YOGA

KARMA-YOGA teaches right living. Karma-Yoga is the Yoga of activity.

Karma-Yoga teaches the right relation towards people and the right action in the ordinary circumstances of life. Karma-Yoga teaches how to become a Yogi in life without going into the desert or entering a school of Yogis. Karma-Yoga is a necessary supplement to all other Yogas ; only with the help of Karma -Yoga can a man always remember his aim and never lose sight of it. Without Karma-Yoga all other Yogas either give no results or degenerate into something opposite to themselves.

Raja-Yoga and Hatha-Yoga degenerate into a search for external miracles, for the mysterious, for the terrible, that is, into pseudo-occultism. Bhakti-Yoga degenerates into pseudo-mysticism, into superstition, into a personal adoration or into a striving for personal salvation. Jnana-Yoga degenerates into scholasticism or at best into metaphysics.

Karma-Yoga is always connected with the aim of inner development, of inner improvement.

It helps man not to fall asleep inwardly amidst the entangling influences of life, especially in the midst of the hypnotizing influence of activity.

It makes him remember that nothing external has any significance, that everything must be done without caring about results.

Without Karma-Yoga man becomes absorbed in the nearest, the visible, aims and forgets the chief aim.

Karma-Yoga teaches man to change his fate, to direct it at will.

According to the fundamental idea of Karma-Yoga this is attained only by altering the inner attitude of man towards things and towards his own actions.

The same action can be performed differently, one and the same event can be lived through differently. And if a man alters his attitude towards what happens to him, this will in the course of time inevitably change the character of the events which he encounters on his way.

Karma-Yoga teaches man to understand that when it seems to him that he himself is acting, in reality it is not he who acts, but only a power passing through him. Karma-Yoga asserts that a man is not at all what he thinks himself to be, and teaches man to understand that only in very rare cases does he act of himself and independently, and that in most cases he acts only as a part of one or another great whole. This is the “ occult ” side of Karma-Yoga, the teaching concerning the forces and laws which govern man.

A man who understands the ideas of Karma-Yoga feels all the time that he is but a tiny screw or a tiny wheel in the big machine, and that the success or un-success of what he thinks he is doing depends very little on his own actions.

Acting and feeling in this way, a man can never meet with failure in anything, because the greatest failure, the greatest unsuccess, may further success in his inner work, in his struggle with himself, if he only ﬁnds the right attitude towards this unsuccess.

A life governed by the principles of Karma-Yoga differs greatly from an ordinary life.

In ordinary life, no matter what the conditions may be, the chief aim of man consists in avoiding all unpleasantness, difficulties and discomforts, so far as this is possible.

In a life governed by the principles of Karma-Yoga, a man does not seek to avoid unpleasantnesses or discomforts. On the contrary, he welcomes them, for they afford him a chance of overcoming them.

From the point of view of Karma-Yoga, if life offered no difficulties it would be necessary to create them artificially. And therefore the difficulties which are met with in life are regarded not as something unpleasant which one must try to avoid, but as very useful conditions for the aims of inner work and inner development.

When a man realises this and feels it constantly, life itself becomes his teacher.

The chief principle of Karma-Yoga is non-attachment. A man who follows the methods of Karma-Yoga must practise non-attachment always and in everything, whether to good or to evil, to pleasure or to pain. Non-attachment does not mean indifference.

It is a certain kind of separation of self from what happens or from “what a man is doing. It is not coldness, nor is it the desire to shut oneself off from life. It is the recognition and the constant realisation that everything is done according to certain laws and that everything in the world has its own fate.

From an ordinary point of view the following of the principles of Karma-Yoga appears as fatalism. But it is not fatalism in the sense of the accepting of the exact and unalterable preordination of everything without the possibility of any change whatever. On the contrary, Karma—Yoga teaches how to change the karma–how to influence the karma. But from the point of view of Karma Yoga this influencing is an entirely inner process. Karma-Yoga teaches that a man may change the people and events around him by changing his attitude towards them.

The idea of this is very clear. Every man from his birth is surrounded by a certain karma, by certain people and certain events.

And in accordance with his nature, education, tastes and habits he adopts a certain definite attitude towards things, people and events.

So long as his attitude remains unchanged, people, things and events also remain unchanged, that is, corresponding to his karma. If he is not satisfied with his karma, if he wants something new and unknown he must change his attitude towards what he has and then the new events will come.

Karma-Yoga is the only way possible for people who are tied to life, who are unable to free themselves from the external forms of life, for people who either through their birth or through their own powers and capacities are placed at the head of human communities or groups, for people who are connected with the progress of the life of humanity, for historical personages, for people whose personal life seems to be the expression of the life of an epoch or a nation. These people cannot change themselves visibly; they can change themselves only internally, while externally remaining the same as before, saying the same things, doing the same things, but without attachment, as actors on the stage. Having become such actors in relation to their life, they become Yogi; in the midst of the most varied and intense activity. There can be peace in their soul whatever their troubles may be. Their thought can work without hindrance, independently of anything that may surround it.

Karma-Yoga gives freedom to the prisoner in a gaol and to the king on a throne, if only they can feel that they are actors playing their roles.

DEFINITION of POWER;

“How education is used to enslave.”

“EGO is the only dangerous enemy we have.” Be aware of anyone who promises you to make you feel like a God or who can turn you into a God. A true God never think to be one. Does not need to feel like one either. He just is.

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I want to share with you part of a conversation I recently had with couple of people. They both have a $cientology background and therefore have been indoctrinated to move toward solidity in the name of freedom and transparency.

As in many abusive controlling groups, in $cientology, training and knowledge have been altered and used to the advantage of the ‘enslaver’, very often called ‘The saviour’.

NOTE: This is an advanced spiritual blog. It needs to be read with a spiritual mind. Your analytical mind will find no wrong with deceiving programs, as they do guarantee (in your individualization/ego) its survival.

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Q. Mr. Hubbard defined power as ‘being able to hold a position in space’.

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A: There is no true ‘power’ you can gain in this universe. Holding on to a “material” position (even if out of a body) and getting enmeshed into the trap, are the same thing. You have to go beyond the human concept of being/not-being to be able to get even a faint idea of spiritual freedom.

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Q.What I am referring to, is not a MEST (physical) position, but being able to make the original postulates (original intention) stick and not succumb.

A. Anything a rational mind can formulate is a lie…. the spiritual mind being superior to the game cannot be comprehended by a rational mind.

At one point you have to let go of this game and your awareness will guide you. But the rational mind would not-know, will be unaware of anything about it, although will continuously bug you, with worrisome evaluations and questions.

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Q2.All I really wanted from the “church” was to go exterior anytime I wanted. So many people who left the “church” claim it was a scam and not to waste your time or money. What do you think? can you go exterior at will? if yes, at what point did that happen for you?

A. I fortunately went past $cientology and the independent Scientologists (though I admire several of them).

Scientology as many other groups with the pretence to be spiritual, answers the selfish desire of the most to feel safe. It does not take you anywhere.

What it is to be exterior to you? and Why do you want to be exterior? Are you aware of the fact that the exterior with all perception is, still, a material condition?

If that is where you aiming to, nor the church of $cientology or I, can help you. $cientology cannot help you because makes people more solid, and I cannot help you because I work with people who wish to wake up to the illusion of the material universe, not who wish to satisfy its illusion of power and freedom while remaining asleep.

I can only advise you to never stop wishing for what you want and never stop walking toward your dream no matter how slow you go.

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Q2. I agree with you that the “church” makes people more solid and not allow a person to look or think for one self. How is it that to be exterior is a material condition? I wanted to go exterior, to fly and be as a bird. how great that would be and not feel trapped to a body with all its pain and discomforts.

A. Every single spiritual advanced philosophy will tell you this world is an illusion. You can have a less solid body (spirit) but you will be subjected by the material/energy laws the same…. The pain is on a different level.

I do not audit to get you more comfortable in this prison. I only audit who is ready to get out. However there are many fantastic auditor who are happy to do that for you.

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Q2. I would like to get out of the material universe. But I have difficulty studying.

A. This is a pretty messed-up universe, and so the beings trapped in it. They do not even know they are asleep. LRH created several rundown to wake up the Thetan (spirit), but he did not succeed. Only very few can handled the horror of what is really happening.

I have experienced on my skin lots of suppression, not only for the Church of $cientology, but also from certain independents, and other Self oriented, status-seeking people. Are called psychopaths, these being people and/or organizations.

My wish to you is for you to start your path. If you cannot study, start taking Yoga, not the one people use as a trendy activity… the one which relaxes your mind and body. It works… and do read one line a day of a spiritual oriented book of your choice. I have an amazing friend class 8 who can help you, at least for the beginning, so you regain some spiritual strength.

The question is, are you really intentioned to get audited, can you afford some auditing? If not, are you willing to start yourself by yourself, this till you can exchange someone for their help?

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Q2. Did you get rid of the body thetans (spirits) as an OT8? Do you truly believe that other thetans are attached to us who are barely aware? This is of course very hard for any one to believe. I heard that some OT’s have gone mad or committed suicide trying to rid their body of these body thetans. Just wondered… I truly don’t know what to believe any more. I know the universe is fucked up with all its wars and aberrations. Can I ask you.. how do you feel about Ron now that you left the organization? Did you go online and find out more about Ron, who he was , ect.. I just don’t know what I trust any more… I don’t have money at this time for auditing but I’m guessing it is not as costly as what the Organization charges? The other thing I don’t understand is when people have attested to a state of “Clear” in the past on the e-meter, years later and now the Org is trying to say people are not “Clear” and need to go back and re-do services … if the E-meter says a person is Clear then how could they (the ORG) miss it??

There’s just so much confusion on this for me. I’d like to think there is a higher spiritual place to arrive at but when ever I’ve had a “win” it was only short-lived and not lasting.

A. LRH was a genius, he did not invent anything. He studied and compiled Scientology from many books. He was brilliant.

The bridge as he created it, is wonderful. But seldom awakes a sleeping being. And so he had many problems. He violated his own knowingness and rules, and he degraded.

You cannot make one thing of the spiritual and rational mind. They belong to two different worlds.

LRH spiritual mind was ‘awakening’, his rational mind was very sick. He lied, cheated, betrayed the very people who should have trusted and loved, and did choose the wrong people as his friends. He turned his own technology into an implant machine.

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Take from him what is needed to advance with your “puzzle” (path) and move on. There are no OTs in $cientology. BT (Body Thetans) and Cluster are going to be around always, they are particle of energy.

You suppose to be able to see them and move on, not getting stuck on being their “controller”

EGO is the only dangerous enemy we have.

Do you want to go somewhere? Your self-importance, valences, ego has to go. In the silence you perceive truth.

It is a lot of work to get there and it is personal work.

If you do not make it, there is only person you can blame; YOURSELF.

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life, perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody. That is the beauty of it. It has no technique and therefore no authority. When you learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy, if you are aware of all that in yourself, without any choice, that is part of meditation.So meditation can take place when you are sitting in a bus or walking in the woods full of light and shadows, or listening to the singing of birds or looking at the face of your wife or child.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known,116

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“At one point you have to let go of this game and your awareness will guide you. But the rational mind would not-know, will be unaware of anything about it, although will continuously bug you, with worrisome evaluations and questions. “

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‘The Sufis way’

By Idries Shah

“Sufi mysticism differs tremendously from other cults claiming to be mystical. Formal religion is for the Sufi merely a shell, though a genuine one, which fulfills a function.

When the human consciousness has penetrated beyond this social framework, the Sufi understands the real meaning of religion.

The mystics of other persuasions do not think in this manner at all.

They may transcend outer religious forms, but they do not emphasize the fact that outer religion is only a prelude to special experience.

Most ecstasis remain attached to a rapturous symbolization of some concept derived from their religion.

The Sufi uses religion and psychology to pass beyond all this. Having done so, he “returns to the world,” to guide others on the way.

WHY SHOULD I PAY FOR SPIRITUAL FREEDOM?

You shouldn’t, as there is nothing there to be gain for you.

If you asking yourself the question

you are not ready to learn.

as your priorities are not in alignment with your search.

EYEBROWSA man looked at his wife’s face and said: “When did one of your eyebrows become thinner than the other?”She answered: “It was ﬁrst noticed when you started to look at my exterior, and became less appreciative of the inner Me.”So runs the Suﬁ tale. It continues: “So, too, when the potential Seeker asks how he can trust a Master, he is approaching matters superﬁcially. If he could discern inner worth, he would not of course need to ask the question. But, as he cannot understand, the only answer to him is, ‘There is no answer for you!’From THE COMMANDING SELF by Idries Shal page 92

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Today He Understands. . .

by IDRIES SHAH

…‘ “My dear friend,” he said, “money was your god, and not God himself. Greed produced doubt, and I could not teach you while you still had greed and doubt.””

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In my early days, I was puzzled by the behavior of a Suﬁ who,

like many others, was a business man. A would-be disciple of his

(whom I knew) was told to donate a very large sum of money for

the purposes of the Suﬁ’s business: and he was startled at the

request. Accustomed to believing that men of the spirit sacriﬁce

themselves unstintingly for their work, he was puzzled by the

words, ‘This is to compensate the business for time given to you

in teaching’. “He would get nothing, he was told, until he paid

the money, not a single lesson.

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The rich but puzzled student spoke to me, in a pained voice,

as we sat together on the steps of the Suﬁ’s centre. ‘I don’t know

Whether I trust him,’ he said, ‘so why should I be faced with such

a decision: why should I have to wonder whether I can give him

money?’ .

I agreed. If the object was simply to make the disciple pay,

why not nominate a charity, I thought, some organization

unconnected with the Sufi? We agreed that a bad construction

was more likely to be put by anyone on such an approach, even

from such a man as we thought the Master to be. . .

‘What is more, ’ said my friend, ‘I wonder whether the teacher

realises that I now have his reputation in my hand.

Saintly, a man

of God, learned and all the rest — that he may appear. But how

would it look to the world if I — unenlightened perhaps, but

certainly a man of -great probity — told all the world that this

spiritual man would not teach without ﬁrst being given money?’

Quite true, I thought. One should never put one’s reputation

in another’s hand. I got up and went away, shunning the Suﬁ

and never returning to his abode.

Five years passed, and I was in another country, working very

hard on a difficult assignment. Sometimes I did not leave my

small room above the Souk in Damascus for days on end.

Sometimes — and this was one of those days — I felt I simply had

to get out, to see other people, to have a change of scene.

Thus it was that I got up from my little desk, and went

downstairs, into the crowded market, to walk among the people

milling past the shops.

No sooner had I reached the street than I saw, standing in a

doorway, my friend the rich man, dressed as a wandering

Dervish, with a conical cap, a patched cloak, and a string of

rosary beads. I took his hand, and led him to a café table where

we could talk.

I immediately asked him what he had decided, in the end,

about giving the money to the Suﬁ. He sighed, and then said

certain things which are among the most important I have heard

in my life.

‘In the end,’ he began, ‘I gave him the money, because I

decided that it might be a test of some kind. After a week he

called me and handed back the package of notes, and drove me

from his presence.

As he was sending me away, he said, “You try

to test me, and all the while you ﬂatter yourself that I am testing

you.”

‘I returned again and again to his assemblies. I ate at his table,

and listened to his lectures: but I did not really understand

anything of value, I am sure of that.’ He stopped talking and

shuddered.

‘And then?’ I asked.

‘And then, not long afterwards, the Master died. I thought,

“He has put himself beyond my reach”.’ He fell silent again, and

I had to remind him that I was still there.

‘Tell me, brother,’ I asked, ‘What the consequence of all this

was.

‘The day after the Master died,’ he went on, ‘I was sitting in

contemplation when he appeared before me as in a vision. His

hand was extended towards me, but I could not reach it. He

frowned, and I felt fear and love, both at once. Then he spoke to

me.

‘ “My dear friend,” he said, “money was your god, and not

God himself. Greed produced doubt, and I could not teach you

while you still had greed and doubt.”

‘ “But you played on my doubt and made it worse,” I cried.

‘ “I brought to your attention your disabling characteristics.

I did not make them worse —

I only made them manifest themselves to you.

This gave you a chance to assess yourself

as well as judging me.”

He paused, and then showed me how he had been

reading my mind all along.

“You reﬂected that you had my

reputation in the hollow of your hand. But why did you exult at

having something that everyone else also has? Do you not know

that every ignoramus on earth can safely defame every single

Sufi in the world. He will be believed by every other fearful,

suspicious, greedy person.

Do you not know’ that the dog sees an

enemy in every shadow — even in the shadow of his own master

who brings him his food?”

‘I fell on my knees and implored him to help me. “You will

not help yourself, and yet you ask to be helped!” he said; “And I

can retum only when it is possible for me to help you again”.’

With tears in his eyes, my wandering Dervish friend jumped

up from his chair and, although I followed him, was immedi-

ately lost in the Friday evening throng.

That was thirty years ago, and I have not seen him since.

Today, however, I had a message from him. It said, ‘First I was

ignorant, then I learnt a lesson in my mind and feelings, and

thought that this was a spiritual lesson.

Today, at last, I understand. Spirituality is understanding, not imagining. Praise be to